Crazy Bush

Our President may be a madman. Driven by a lust for power and a love for war, it is clear that he is pushing as hard as he can for another war - this one with Iran. The following from Progress Report (2/12/2007) from The Center for American Progress.

AN 'ESCALATING TIT-FOR-TAT': Sunday's briefing accusing high-level Iranian officials of supplying Iraqis with weapons to kill American forces capped off months of escalation by Bush administration officials. In his Jan. 10 address to the nation on his new Iraq strategy, President Bush included "some of his sharpest words of warning" to Iran. "I recently ordered the deployment of an additional carrier group to the region," he said. This build-up is "the largest concentration of naval power projection in that region" since the start of the Iraq war in 2003. Vice President Cheney explained that sending the carriers "sends a very strong signal to everybody in the region" that "we clearly have significant capabilities...to deal with the Iranian threat." Shortly after Bush's speech, American forces stormed Iranian government offices in northern Iraq, detaining six people. Just weeks later, Bush confirmed he had authorized a Pentagon program to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq. Newsweek also notes, "The Americans have hinted that as part of an escalating tit-for-tat, Iranians may have had a hand in a [devastating] raid in Karbala on Jan. 20, in which four American soldiers were kidnapped and later found shot, execution style, in the head. U.S. forces promised to defend themselves." Alarmed by rising tensions between the United States and Iran, "Iraqi government officials fear their country is in danger of being dragged into the middle of a new conflict between its two main allies." The President's advisors "are effectively saying, 'Invade Iran. Then everyone will see how smart we are,'" said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and an influential conservative who backed the Iraq invasion. One ambassador in Washington "said he was taken aback when John Hannah, Vice President Cheney's national security adviser, said during a recent meeting that the administration considers 2007 'the year of Iran' and indicated that a U.S. attack was a real possibility."